Any Jody Calls Suitable for Work

[Bekeart]

Realize this is very general and not limited to AJ's Viet Nam thread.

Any Jody Calls Suitable for Work?

Yesterday at a class promoting food, nutrition, and exercise Walking/Marching in place for 15 minutes was suggested.

Instructor commented that at correct pace you could talk (hold a conversation) but would not be able to sing.

I had a different opinion.

Brought to mind Jody Calls for cadence. Unfortunately, I only know one suitable for work.
i.e. "I don't know, but I have been told, Eskimo girls are mighty cold."

So, with great pomposity and total lack of dignity, I inflicted the class with my marching cadence version of Goober Peas.

I am sure that there are other "songs" that could be sang/recited.

Bekeart

 

[Alpo]

Ain't no sense in looking down
Ain't no discharge on the ground


Ain't no sense in going back

Jody got your Cadillac


Ain't no sense in going home
Jody got your girl and gone

 

[Alpo]

You had a good home when you left, YOU'RE RIGHT

Your mother was there when you left, YOU'RE RIGHT
Your father was there when you left, YOU'RE RIGHT
The police were there when you left, YOU'RE RIGHT
That's the reason you left, YOU'RE RIGHT

 

[Retired W4]

I recently educated a friend, who was never in the military, about who Jody was/is. Then came the "Dear John".

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Know a number of Marching Tunes.
But probably know more Drinking Songs.
We got a lot of them from the RAF.
Most of them are our Hymnal.

 

[mtgianni]

Chanting is generally done with the throat while singing should involve throat, lungs and possibly nasal openings. Different body movements. Chanting is more akin to loud speech than song.

 

[DWalt]

There are dozens of websites devoted to Jodies.

 

[djohns6]

If I had tried that at work my guys would have walked out ..

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

You had a good home when you left, YOU'RE RIGHT

Your mother was there when you left, YOU'RE RIGHT
Your father was there when you left, YOU'RE RIGHT
The police were there when you left, YOU'RE RIGHT
That's the reason you left, YOU'RE RIGHT

What branch did this come from and when? It sure isn't from the Marines in the mid 80's...I'd have remembered this one!

Ones I remember besides "Ain't no use in looking down etc etc etc" one that was to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club theme, one involving a yellow bird, and one involving Columbus. All of which would get me banned and possibly executed by being put to the rack, burned at the stake, and guillotined!

 

[walnutred]

GI grits and GI gravy
GI wished I'd joined the Navy
They don't march and they don't fight
All the do is party all night.

 

[Kinman]

I knew all too well who Jodie was, been there, done that without pause.

 

[Rustyt1953]

You had a good home but you left / You're right
You had a good home but you left / You're right
Jody was there when you left / You're right
Your baby was there when you left / You're right...

Made famous in the 1949 movie "Battlefield" about the 101st Airborne.

 

[jeffsmith]

Allow me from "Battleground"
one of the Best War Movies
TY @Rusty1953

Battleground (1949) "Jody" Marching Cadence - Before Combat, After Combat (ending) - YouTube

 

[SS336]

GI grits and GI gravy
GI wished I'd joined the Navy
They don't march and they don't fight
All the do is party all night.

I don’t want no teenage queen. I just want my M14.
If I die in the combat zone, box me and ship me home.
Pin my medals upon chest. Tell my mom I done my best.

This one might be from a movie. I was in the Navy, so…….

 

[Alpo]

What branch did this come from and when? It sure isn't from the Marines in the mid 80's...I'd have remembered this one!

!

Pretty sure I learned it in Boy Scouts in the early seventies.

 

[Fullmetaljacket]

I don’t want no teenage queen. I just want my M14.
If I die in the combat zone, box me and ship me home.
Pin my medals upon chest. Tell my mom I done my best.

This one might be from a movie. I was in the Navy, so…….

That one is from...wait for it...Full Metal Jacket. No idea if it originated with the USMC or Stanley Kubrick's fertile imagination.

 

[31FordA]

That one is from...wait for it...Full Metal Jacket. No idea if it originated with the USMC or Stanley Kubrick's fertile imagination.

I don’t know if it predated the movie, but my platoon was using it on Parris Island in 1993. All of us had seen Full Metal Jacket about 50 times before we shipped to PI.

In high school my buddies watched that movie all the time. They were adamant they were going to join the Corps after graduating. I would always tell them “What idiot would want to volunteer for all that abuse?”. Well, out of all of us the only idiot to sign up for an all expenses paid vacation on sunny Parris Island was me.

I remember the “Delay Cadence” :

Delay cadence, cadence count, now delay cadence, COUNT!
ONE, a little louder
TWO, hold your head up high
THREE, put your shoulders back
FOUR, let me hear you cry

Thirty years later I can hear seventy pairs of “Cadillacs” crashing on the deck as we marched along. Sometimes we all even managed to be in step at the same time. We sucked at drill, as our DI’s loudly pointed out. First place on the rifle range at least.

 

[Bald1]

My son is finishing up an MTL special duty assignment. He is an Air Force Tech Sargent. He runs PT every morning with the airmen. He’s always been a gym rat and I know he runs them hard. I’ll have to ask him if they call it a Jodie still. I’ve never heard that term. I swear I learn something every time I go on this Forum.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

I remember all of the above while marching in 1951. some will deleted for bad language. Oh, Those were the days.

 

[walnutred]

In the early 70's I was watching She Wore a Yellow Ribbon on TV with my dad. At the end where they are riding out singing the theme song I commented to my dad "I'm not sure the cavalry really sang like that." He replied "I don't know about the cavalry but we marched to pretty much that same song in '42." At my dads funeral I mentioned that story to my brother and brother-in-law. They both laughed and informed me that they had both marched to that cadence. One in '65 at Ft Knox and one in '66 a Great Lakes.